Emile felix guerin



. Application filed February 20, 1886. Serial No. 192,734.

of said boards.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMILE FELIX GUERIN, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

PARQUET-FLOO RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,457, dated October5, 1886.

(No model.) Patented in England April 15, 1884, No. 6,388,- in BelgiumApril 30, 1884, No. 65,001; in France July 29, 1884, N 0. 163,533, andinAustria-Hungary November 22, 1884, No. 52,873 and No.

be fully described and set forth hereinafter, and

then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming apart ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan View of my improved parquet-flooring. Fig. 2 is across-sectional view of the same on the line 00 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is adetail side View of parts.

The boards or strips A, forming the parquetflooring, are provided withthe grooves B in their ends, said grooves extending from one side edgeof a board to the other side edge,

and being about at the middle of the thickness of the boards. These endgrooves serve to receive the metal tongues or strips 0, which aresecured to the side edges of the beams D, for supporting the boards A,or between the end edges of said boards and above the top edges of thebeams. In the first case the tongues O are secured directly on thebeams, and in the latter case they are connected, as presentlydescribed, to the beams D, supporting the ends of the boards, but do notrest on the same, as they are all together in the end grooves Screws ornails E are passed through the metal tongues or strips 0 to hold them inplace, said screws or nails passing into the tops of the beams D, asshown in Fig. 3. The tonguesG are first fastened on the beams or held inplace by the screws or nails, and then they are successively passed inbetween the said metal tongues in such a manner that the tongues enterthe end grooves, B, of

the boards, and thus hold the said boards down on the beams. Thosetongues O which are not embedded in the beams or not securely fastenedare held from the tops of beams by those parts of the boards below thegroove B, on which parts the said tongues 0 rest. Where the tongues Oare embedded in the sides of the beams or otherwise securely fastenedthe tops of the beams are flush with the upper surfaces of the boards A.The boards A can be placed diagonally to the tongues G at right anglesand to formv any desired figures, as that does not interfere with thefastening device. When the tongues 0 project from the sides of the beamsD, the ends of the boards A rest on theshoulders or offsets F of thebeams.

The beams D may be secured on the usual floor-beams, or the tongues 0may be secured on the usual floor-beams. No nail or screw heads arevisible on the surface of the flooring. The flooring can shrink orcontract Without warping or throwing, and the boards can be pressedclose together or loosened, according to the temperature.

The boards A can be removed and replaced by others very easily, done.

The side edges of the boards A may be tongued and grooved in the usualmanner,and the said boards may be of uniform or different widths.

I am aware of the existence of the floor-tile consisting of blocksarranged within a frame, the inner ends and SidQS of which frame and theedges of which blocks are provided with incisions or kerfs which receivea metal strip joining together the blocks and the frame.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent -l. The combination, with the beams havingshoulders or reduced at their upper edges and grooves in their sides, ofthe boards having in the ends grooves, and the plates fitting in thegrooves of said beams and boards, said boards resting upon the shouldersof said beams, sub stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination, with the intermediate and side beams, the side beamshaving shouland no nailing need be ders or reduced at their upper edgesand their abutting ends and upon the shoulders of grooves in theirsides, of the boards having the side beams at their opposite ends,substangrooves in their ends, and the plates entering tially as and forthe purpose set forth. the grooves in, and uniting the abutting endsEMILE FELIX GUERIN.

5 of, said boards, and entering grooves in the Witnesses:

other ends of said boards and the beams, said V. TRUDELLE, boardsresting upon the intermediate beam at A. GUINARD.

